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" I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.' "

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" It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase. "

David Cassidy

Famous

Place

People

" My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited. "

David Cassidy

Heights

Remember

" My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee. "

" If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination. "

" My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me. "

David Cassidy

Good

Mother

" I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act. "

" I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides. "

" I think of my career as something apart from myself. "

" I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model. "

" Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present. "

" I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am. "

" We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be. "

David Cassidy

Believe

Celebrity

" I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lose touch. "

" My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience. "

" I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived. "

" My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life. "

" I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive. "

" It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly. "

" I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did. "

" When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have. "

" It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older. "

" I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series. "

David Cassidy

End

Want

" In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot. "

" My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts. "

" I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.' "

David Cassidy

People

Home

" I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on. "

" I've had an awful lot of good fortune. "

" I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility. "

" It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes. "

" I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people. "